tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003888645468433795.post9176302160217325258..comments2024-03-28T21:04:58.464+00:00Comments on Madhouse Family Reviews: Book review : White Hunger - Aki OllikainenCheryl Pasquierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17616020125806847507noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003888645468433795.post-43367326366724275062015-03-30T21:17:00.202+01:002015-03-30T21:17:00.202+01:00Thanks for all the extra info, it's great when...Thanks for all the extra info, it's great when a book takes you to a historical time and place that you knew little about and fills in gaps in your knowledge that you never knew you had !Cheryl Pasquierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17616020125806847507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3003888645468433795.post-63687402208566090592015-03-30T17:40:15.636+01:002015-03-30T17:40:15.636+01:00"to St Petersburg (this intially confused me ..."to St Petersburg (this intially confused me but I learnt that northern Finland was part of Russia at the time)"<br /><br />Actually all of Finland was a part of Russia, as the Grand Duchy of Finland. There is still a statue of Alexander II in the Senate's Square in Helsinki, erected by Finns, as the late 19th century was a very good era for Finland. <br />Helsinki used to double for St. Petersbourg during the Cold War, for example many outdoor scenes of the movie Reds were filmed there. You can see them (and the statue) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c13q2wYZr_0<br /><br />The Peirene Press also has another Finnish book about the war in which Sweden lost Finland to Russia. Many of the leading Finns were not too sorry about that, some were already serving in Russia, and it proved to be a good change for Finland. For example Finnish might have died out under the Swedish rule, instead we got an autonomy and later the first female MPs in the world in 1907.<br />http://www.peirenepress.com/books/small_epic/peirene_no_7Tytyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337186070833213172noreply@blogger.com